Innovations in the compilation and analysis of spoken corpora

Special Issue of Research in Corpus Linguistics, forthcoming November 2024

Guest Editor: Robbie Love

Corpora derived from recordings of spoken language present unique challenges for linguists, from the perspectives of corpus design, compilation, processing and analysis, among others. Over the last few decades, there have been many developments in these areas, largely driven by technological innovations, for example: the ubiquity of digital recording devices for the easy capture of speech; the wide availability of video and audio data, from a variety of discourse contexts; advancements in automated transcription; developments in the exploitation of multimodal corpora; and advancements in the functionality of popular corpus tools to process highly-annotated corpora. This special issue of RiCL intends to capture recent innovations in the compilation and analysis of spoken corpora – both monomodal and multimodal – and highlight the current challenges and future opportunities in this area of study.

FirstView articles

“We’ve lost you Ian”: Multi-modal corpus innovations in capturing, processing and analysing professional online spoken interactions

Anne O’Keeffe, Dawn Knight, Geraldine Mark, Christopher Fitzgerald, Justin McNamara, Svenja Adolphs, Benjamin Cowan, Tania Fahey Palma, Fiona Farr, Sandrine Peraldi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.12.02.02

Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation: Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation

Elizabeth Hanks, Tony McEnery, Jesse Egbert, Tove Larsson, Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen, Paul Baker, Vaclav Brezina, Gavin Brookes, Isobelle Clarke, Raffaella Bottini

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.12.02.03

Compiling a corpus of African American Language from oral histories

Sarah Moeller, Alexis Davis, Wilermine Previlon, Michael Bottini, Kevin Tang

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.12.02.04

Addressing comparability and retrieval issues in conversation corpora: A case study on the Spoken British National Corpora (1994 and 2014), using the past perfect

Nicholas Smith, Cristiano Broccias, Cathleen Waters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.12.02.05

Accepted papers (forthcoming)

Corpus as a slice of life: Representing Kazakh language and its speakers

Giorgia Troiani, John W. Du Bois, Andrey Filchenko

Design and construction of a social media corpus: Influencers’ speech in vlogs

Hülya Mısır

Developing a coding scheme for annotating opinion statements in L2 interactive spoken English with application for language teaching and assessment

Yejin Jung, Dana Gablasova, Vaclav Brezina, Hanna Schmück